Barry Weiss
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976 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Okay, just a cool 80 billion. You couldn't get a meeting with Kamala Harris?
Why?
Like crypto is somehow perceived as like brand unsafe.
And Brian, when like the chief of staff would show up, what are they saying to you? Milk toast things or?
How about a lot of this?
So the Kamala Harris campaign was giving you the brush off then, you know, very, very different picture with this administration, I imagine.
So just to ask it one more time, you met with Trump after the election. Can you tell us anything that the two of you talked about?
Did you give him any advice on launching his own meme coin? Because presumably you met with him before you did that.
Okay, well, let's talk a little bit about that because there's many people in the country who do not pay attention to this enormous industry that you are in. But it came on their radar when Trump launched his own meme coin. And I got a lot of texts from people in my life saying, what is a meme coin? And that meme coin went from like $6 to $73 in two days.
And then that was followed on by Melania Trump also launching her own coin. Now, the vast majority of people who bought this thing at its height lost money. And a lot of people are left thinking, what the hell is this? Like, is this a grift? Should we understand this as like a fun commemorative coin? Do people think or do you think that this actually has real value?
Like, help explain this to a civilian who's kind of coming to this cold.
I want to just push back on the analogy that this is art because when I think about a great painting or a great song or a play or movie, like it has maybe intrinsic value as to loaded a phrase, but it moves you. It makes you think. It does something visceral. I don't see a meme coin as doing that at all.
Exactly, Brian.
Some of it seems more to me like the Beanie Baby craze.
Fair enough. Jeff Koons, I guess, could be compared to the Trump meme coin and that might be a plausible comparison. Do you think it's strange? Forget the legality. Do you think it's strange for the president to be doing this?
OK, well, since Trump was inaugurated, the price of Bitcoin, the largest and most popular cryptocurrency, if people have heard of any cryptocurrency, they will have heard of Bitcoin. It hit it surpassed one hundred thousand dollars, which is unbelievable, basically doubled in value. And more and more people are treating Bitcoin like a legitimate asset class.
The problem is, is that right now, at least you'll correct me if I'm wrong, crypto is not really usable. Like people are still talking about use cases for crypto. I can't go into the deli or I can't go into buy a sandwich and use crypto. Explain the gap for me. Why am I not able to use it in that way in the real world? And when will I be able to?
But it's almost like small-minded of me to ask, why can't I go into a 7-Eleven and use crypto? Because I also wouldn't go into a 7-Eleven and use a gold bar.
One of the tensions I see right now between like inside of the right, and I think that this is like a fascinating debate watching it play out, is the tension between sort of the nationalist impulse, the nationalist populace who want a strong dollar, obviously, and want America to win and, you know, are very, very invested in this idea of America first. And then...
The nature of digital currencies, which is about like freedom, frankly, from the nation state itself. Talk to me a little bit about how you see that tension. And yeah, we just I would love to hear you on that topic.
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